A new version of the libheif library has been released, designed for encoding and decoding images in HEIF and AVIF formats. Main changes: integration of rav1e, which provides faster encoding compared to AOM; AVIF support with 10/12 bits; AVIF support in the gdk-pixbuf loader (supplied with the library); support for NCLX color profiles; HEIF and AVIF encoding with chroma 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 […]
Note. transl.: this provocative article about blockchain was written and published about two years ago in Dutch. The other day it was translated into English, which caused a new surge of interest from an even larger IT community. Despite the fact that some figures have become outdated during this time, the essence that the author tried to convey has remained the same. Blockchain will change everything: the industry […]
Ceph user communities are filled with stories of how everything broke, didn't start, fell off. Does this mean the technology is bad? Not at all. This means development is underway. Users stumble upon technology bottlenecks, find recipes and solutions, and send patches upstream. The more experience with the technology, the more users bet on it, the more problems will be described […]
Note. The original report is published on Medium in English. It also contains quotes from respondents and links to participants. A shortened version is available as a tweet storm. What the study is about The term DWeb (Decentralized Web, Dweb) or Web 3.0 is most often a collective term for a number of new technologies that will revolutionize the web in the next few years. We spoke with 631 respondents, […]
In the first six months of 2020, the nation's energy sector grew largely due to the use of renewable sources, according to new data from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). And this does not take into account individual solar installations on the roofs of citizens. However, in matters of “greening” energy, the United States is still behind Europe, but hopes to catch up over time. According to […]
Yesterday, a message appeared on the official Bethesda UK Twitter account about the impressive camp of a player under the pseudonym Zu-Raku in Fallout 76. The developers accidentally found the fan's settlement while exploring Appalachia. The user's makeshift home is built on the site of a former raider outpost. Zu-Raku added its own structures to the existing buildings. The entrance to the outer part of the camp is decorated with posters […]
A Reddit user under the pseudonym rockin_gamer shared his discovery with other forum members last week: an enthusiast managed to find the same hill from the standard Windows XP desktop background in Microsoft Flight Simulator. The iconic image is called "Serenity" (Bliss). The photograph captures the landscape of California's Sonoma County, which is southeast of the Sonoma Valley in the United States. Since […]
The release of the graphics editor Glimpse 0.2.0 has been announced, a fork from the GIMP project after 13 years of trying to convince developers to change its name. The creators of Glimpse believe that the use of the GIMP name is unacceptable and interferes with the spread of the editor in educational institutions, public libraries and corporate environments, since the word “gimp” in some social groups of English speakers is perceived as an insult and also has […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.2.0 mail client is available, in which the following changes can be noted: OpenPGP key generation is disabled if there is no configured default mail account. Encryption of saved drafts is provided if OpenPGP is enabled. Twitter search code has been removed. Added support for using themes for the dialog with summary data about an event in the scheduler calendar. Some APIs for […]
The community of .NET developers of Raiffeisenbank continues to briefly analyze the contents of ViennaNET. You can read about how and why we came to this in the first part. In this article, we will go through libraries that have not yet been considered for working with distributed transactions, queues and databases, which can be found in our repository on GitHub (sources are here), and Nuget packages are here. ViennaNET.Sagas When […]
Hi all! We are a community of .NET developers of Raiffeisenbank and we want to talk about a set of infrastructure libraries on .NET Core for quickly creating microservices with a single ecosystem. Brought it to Open Source! A bit of history Once we had a large monolithic project, which gradually turned into a set of microservices (you can read about the features of this process in this article). In progress […]
Hey Habr! On April 22 this year, I wrote an article on Habr about discounts on CRM systems. Then it seemed to me that the price is the most important selection criterion, and I can easily solve everything else with my brains and experience as a system administrator. The boss expected imminent miracles from me, the employees sat down to do nothing to work from home, covid went around the planet, I chose the […]
